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Citizen Assembly

Citizen Assembly invites you to join us in the never-ending, limitless process of REAL deliberative democracy, thanks to the groundbreaking technology Egora, “The Worldwide Stock-Market of Ideas”! Egora-ILP.org With Egora EVERYONE is able to participate in democracy at their own convenience and at their own level of comfort, by… –   developing their own political philosophy…

The State of Cybersecurity Careers for Black Professionals

R Street

Featuring: – Jumoke Dada, R Street Institute Making Space Project Manager and Founder, Tech Women Network – Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) pre-recorded – Tashya Denose, Senior Cybersecurity Analyst Manager, Capital One and Director of Marketing, Black Girls in Cyber – Michaela Barnett, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Blacks in Cybersecurity, HQ – Sonju Walker, Independent…

NCoC Learning Circle

National Conference on Citizenship

NCoC Learning Circle: Examining Asset-Based Civic InfrastructureStrengthening our civic infrastructure – the scaffolding that provides all the ways people engage in public life – is a promising way to help rebuild both our economy and our democracy.On February 16th, 2022, join the National Conference on Citizenship with two titans from our field: John McKnight, who…

Congressman Jamie Raskin Talks His Latest Book

USC Center for the Political Future

Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) joins Center Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy to discuss his memoir, “Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the trials of American Democracy,” the ongoing struggle for the soul of American democracy, and the perseverance that our Constitution demands from us all. Congressman Raskin details the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that…

APF: Compromise? Consensus? Coalition? The Arts of American Politics

How do major decisions get made in the institutions of American democracy, and how do we organize our conflicts to be productive for the public good? We’ve heard a lot of words about how things work, among them “compromise,” “consensus,” and “coalition.” How useful are these concepts for understanding American politics? How should we think…